The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race

The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of RaceWhat is the meaning of blackness in Africa? While much has been written on Africas complex ethnic and tribal relationships, Jemima Pierres groundbreaking The Predicament of Blackness is the first book to tackle the question of race in West Africa through its postcolonial manifestations. Challenging the view of the African continent as a non racialized spaceas a fixed historic source for the African diasporashe envisions Africa, and in particular the

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Through a series of letters spanning nearly thirty years

The late scholar-practitioner Edward Henning

This book aims to set the record straight by deconstructing the multifarious images and stereotypes that came to deform

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